Changes in the transcriptome of morula-stage bovine embryos caused by heat shock: relationship to developmental acquisition of thermotolerance

• Main Authors: Sakatani Miki (Author), Bonilla Luciano (Author), Dobbs Kyle B (Author), Block Jeremy (Author), Ozawa Manabu (Author), Shanker Savita (Author), Yao JiQiang (Author), Hansen Peter J (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>While initially sensitive to heat shock, the bovine embryo gains thermal resistance as it progresses through development so that physiological heat shock has little effect on development to the blastocyst stage by Day 5 after insemin...